According to the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, of the new cases, 32 are male and 29 female, aged between 1 and 81, 27 are from Luanda, 13 from Huambo, six from Zaire and the same number from Kwanza Sul, four from Bié, two from Moxico and two from Lunda Sul and one from Lunda Norte.
The four deaths are two men and two women, between 53 and 71 years of age, all with comorbidities, said the ruler during a press conference in Luanda.
The minister also highlighted the 953 recoveries, of which 765 in Luanda.
825 samples were processed per RT-PCR, with a daily positivity rate of 7.4.
In total, Angola has 18,254 confirmed cases, of which 3009 are under treatment, 14,825 have recovered from the disease and 420 have resulted in death.
The minister again called for compliance with the measures in place to reduce the impact of the pandemic in Angola and cut the chain of transmission, stressing that the global situation requires a collective effort, given the exponential increase in the number of cases and the emergence of the new strain of virus.
"We have countries that are in the second wave and others, like many European countries, are already in the third wave and we have to look at these situations and continue to comply with the measures that can protect them and avoid the worst impact of the pandemic in our midst," he said.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 1,934,693 deaths resulting from more than 90.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
